[ale] MBR rebuilder ?

Jacob Langseth jlangseth at esisys.com
Tue Jul 7 10:11:45 EDT 1998


On Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:41 AM, 'Nomad the Wanderer' [SMTP:nomad at orci.com] 
wrote:
> I have a CD and can boot from it.  However, until I get a bootable CD, and
> in the case of a machine that's just a disk server with no floppy or CD,
> a tool like this would be REALLY useful.

If your goal is to read the mbr and restore it later, my advice
still holds, just use the cd to boot rather than the boot disk
I originally suggested.

You can save the mbr w/:
	dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.sav block_size=512 count=1
and restore it w/
	dd if=mbr.sav of=/dev/hda block_size=512 count=1

Jacob

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Jacob Langseth <jlangseth at esisys.com>
Enhanced Systems, Inc.






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